How-to Throw a Hawaiian Luau Themed Party

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How to Decorate for your Hawaiian Luau:

For your main table you can purchase either a grass skirt tablecloth, or you can purchase a light yellow or green plastic tablecloth and make you our grass skirt tablecloth, All you will have to do is lay, the tablecloth on the party table, using your table as a guide, take a pair of scissors, and carefully cut half inch, and one inch slits all along the sides, the slits, do not have to be perfect that is the idea.

To make your table pop with wonderful bright ocean color, by using different colors. For example, purchase turquoise plastic plates, lime green napkins, bright orange cups, and hot pink forks, spoons, and knives, you could also purchase these in different colors as well that will be up to you.

A Hawaiian Luau Centerpiece:

Materials Needed:

Clear Plastic Tray (long enough for the center of your table)
Neutral or Colored Craft Sand enough to fill the tray (Please use the Craft Sand and not the kind for you child sandbox)
4 Blue Leis (use more leis for a larger tray)
1 Pineapple (use three for a large centerpiece)
2 Oranges (use three for a large centerpiece)
2 Banana's (use three for a large centerpiece)
3 Kiwi (use six for a large Centerpiece)
Small Bunches of Grapes, these will be used to fill in the gaps in between the fruit (use more for a large Centerpiece)
A few small tropical flower blooms
Small Sea Shells

Here is what to do:

The instructions given are for a small centerpieces use the extra pieces for a larger centerpiece. Now, place the plastic tray in the center of your party table, fill the tray with the craft sand. Next place, the pineapple in the center of the try buried slightly in the sand, now set the two oranges on each side of the pineapple, leaving a small gap in between each of the fruits. Now, place the two banana's, and three kiwi's in front of the pineapple and oranges. Next using small bunched place the grapes in the gap, left in between each of the fruits. Now, frame the plastic tray around the bottom with, the four blue leis, this will give your centerpiece the floating island look. Let's finish up this project, by taking the seashells, tropical flowers and placing them all around the fruit and sand. Your Hawaiian Luau centerpiece is now finished.

Menu Ideas:

Roasted Sweet Corn: Make a garlic herb butter, spread this over each of the sweet corn, wrap corn with the corn husk, lay on a wax paper lined tray, and place in the refrigerator over night. Roast Corn, still covered with the husk, until corn is tender.

Meat Kabobs: Take small cuts of beef or your choice of meat, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, or whatever you like. Stack on a skewer, like this beef, onion, tomato, beef, onion, tomato. Make an olive oil, and herbs mixture and brush on each of these meat kabobs. Cook until meat is fully cooked.

Vegetable Kabobs: Line on a skewer slices of zucchini, onions, bell peppers, carrots, also use cherry tomatoes, stack these on the skewer in an pleasing way. Using the olive oil, herb mixture from above brush on to the vegetables, and roast on your grill until vegetables are tender.

Fruit Kabobs: Using big slices or cubed pineapple, apples, oranges, kiwi, and hole strawberries. Line these up on a skewer however you like. You can either grill these also, or you can serve just is, with a little fruit dip on the side.

You can always serve a meat or fruit tray, just keep everything finger size for on the go snacking. For the cake you can serve a pineapple upside down, or a lemon flavored cake.

Drinks: Serve frozen tropical punch, or sherbet punches. You can also serve non-alcohol drinks like daiquiris, pina colatas, or whatever you like to drink. Just remember if you are doing a children's party, keep all of the drinks kid friendly.

Party Activities:

For a birthday party you can do the classic, Hawaiian Luau games, like Limbo just have two people hold a broom stick or long dowel rod, while the others see how low they can go, or you can have a Hula Hoop contest. Make sure to have a Hawaiian themed gift, to give all of the winners, and all who played the games.

For a baby or bridal shower, you can put sea shells, count them first, either a baby bottle or champagne glass, and let the guest figure out how many are inside. Also for a baby or bridal shower, you can put baby or bridal items, on a sand filled tray and have the guest look at the tray for a few minutes, and then see how many items they can remember. For a bridal shower, see if you guest can make a wedding gown out of toilet paper and a hula hoop, and give a Hawaiian themed gifts to all of the winners.